The past that is not erased
Documents from the defunct Federal Security Directorate (DFS) reveal that the now former governor of Sinaloa, Rubén Rocha Moya, was monitored since his youth. The reason? His activism in leftist student movements.
The files, kept in the General Archive of the Nation (AGN), reveal that the DFS followed in his footsteps since 1968, when he was active in the Federation of Socialist Peasant Students of Mexico (FECSUM) as a normalista leader.
“He is linked to alleged links with guerrilla groups, particularly with the movement led by Lucio Cabañas,” the files from the seventies indicate.
The intelligence agency pointed out that some teachers with socialist tendencies had a relationship with these organizations. Rocha Moya was one of them.
From the classrooms to the streets
Surveillance did not stop in the eighties. By then, he was already a union leader at the Autonomous University of Sinaloa and was leading labor mobilizations. His jump into politics as a deputy for the Unified Socialist Party of Mexico only confirmed what the DFS already knew: this guy wouldn’t shut up.
Irony of destiny: the same system that spied on him decades ago, today had him as governor. Chance? In this country, intelligence cards are never completely lost.




